Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The media is as bad as the politicians....During the Kargil conflict, Indian Army sources repeatedly complained to Barkha Dutt and her channel that she was giving away locations in her broadcasts, thus causing Indian casualties.Do they learn from their mistakes NO...1.Hemant Karakre dies tahnks to their footage of him entering the hotel2. DNA India reports about a UK couple ask media to report carefully:The terrorists were watching CNN and they came down from where they were in a lift after hearing about us on TV.— Lynne Shaw in an interview. 3.In one instance BD asks a husband about his wife being stuck, or held as a hostage. The poor guy adds in the end about where she was last hiding. Aired! thank NDTV for not censoring this bit of information. In another instance, a General sort of suggests that there were no hostages in Oberoi Trident. (Clever.) Then, our BD calls the head of Oberoi, and the idiot confirms a possibility of 100 or more people still in the building.Where are the ethic here.....aren't the security of the victime and the defense personnel involved of primary importance ....should the media not have sense to withold key information....and please the lame excuse that after Karkare's death TV 's were put off in the hotel....did anyone hear of SMS's or what not............

In the Enough is Enough Panel Discussion "moderated" by Barkha Dutt the panelists are Luke Kenny Kunal Kohli, Simi Grewal??????????????????????????????????????????what is this??????????????????????????some bollywood take off on the tragedy................who wants to hear what they have to say..............

Such gems we have collected:

1. RR Patil2. Deshmukh3. Kerala CM who is refusing to apologize to Major Unnikrishnan's family for his deragatory remarks4. Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on Monday, came up with a gem equating people protesting against politicians as terrorists.5.Earlier Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had offered money to the widow of slain Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Kemant Karkare whom he had branded a villain just a few days ago 6. Amar Singh doing much the same in the case Delhi Police Inspector RC Sharma.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Before I comment n the terror attack, I have to say I am shocked and grieving for the loss of human life. My prayers go out for all those who lost their lives in the Mumbai attack and may God give strength to their families and loved ones.

I will post my take on this incident but first I want to begin on a positive note and a promise to my country.

I read that Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has turned down an invitation of former US president Bill Clinton for a fund-raising event in Hong Kong, saying he is "not going to sing and dance" when the country and his city bleeds.

"I cancelled. I am not going to leave my country in this troubled hour to travel to a foreign land to lend cause to a foreign initiative, patronized and guided by a foreigner, for his benefit !! I need to see initiative here in my country," he wrote in his blog.

Cashing on this sentiment I think its high time India rose to this occassion ....asked the right questions, and is involved proactively. We blame the govt. the police etc etc etc...but do we blame ourselves for this mess?

We are equally to blame. We elect these officials. We choose not to vote.When an honest officer is given transfer as a punishment we do not come together and protest.We avoid security checks and look for ways to fool the system.We do not demand and raise hue and cry for upgradation of the army, salaries for teachers.Do not demand that Police be only accountable to the law and not the executive wing of Govt.

We fight about North Indians in Mumbai.We ridicule the poorer states in India.We squabble over language,religion, caste and regional superiority.We celebrate malls being built on fertile agrarian lands and then lament our growing food dependency on other nations.We do not learn from our mistakes.

But what we have going for us is:We have a history and culture of tolerance, greatness and the ability to fight our own wars on our own terms.We are resilient and strong and bounce back each and every time.

We will NOT say Chalta hai this time....We will stand united and strong. We will start a revolution/kraanti of Vichaar/ thoughts, vyakti/individual and vitt/resources.So let us do it for we CAN.

Me

Chrysalis is a protected stage of development. I await the completion of my own metamorphosis. Evolve and take wings, I will one day. I live in anticipation of that day. Oh! what a journey it is and what a flight it will be............

Currently can most relate to :

How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about [arithmetic], and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. –G.K. Chesterton